I got the new Gay For Johnny Depp album ‘The Politics of Cruelty’ at the weekend. Absolutely stunning. What’s more there’s a very strong chance I’ll be putting them on in Bournemouth in the new year at iBar. Brilliant!
Wednesday is the birth of a new club night. Robot.Robot.Engage! is the name we’ve given to a new night run by our fledgling promotions ‘thing’ in Bournemouth. Sam from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly is DJ’ing and apparently that scared Fat Poppadaddys enough for them to try and poach both Sam and the whole night. Scumbags, how can the Uni actively endorse practices like this whilst simultaneously hindering what we are trying to do by not allowing any promotion of other venues on the Campus or in the student magazine (who have been very supportive to us).
Anyway, I came across a problem in m project the other day. I want to let users upload images to their own cache and then have the browser display them, thus adding greater interactivity and a reason to register to the site (only members can save, or publish, what they upload). Oh, it’s an online comic book.
Although apparently PHP_SELF can be used for sending images to itself it can only display the various attributes of the image and not the image itself (not without saving the image to the site first, which I don’t want to do). At least that’s the impression I get from Matt and The Internet. Javascript doesn’t seem to be able to do it, either. All the research I did seemed to suggest Javascript can be dynamic but not quite as dynamic as I wanted.
I ‘ve been pointed in the direction of something called AJAX:
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is not a technology in itself, but is a term that describes a “new” approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including: HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, The Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When these technologies are combined in the AJAX model, web applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page. This makes the application faster and more responsive to user actions.
Hopefully I can find what I want to do rather quickly because I don’t want to spend too long on this because although it was initially one of the important functions of the site I realised I could easily survive without it, people will just have to register to play on the create.php page.
Time clearly isn’t on my side.
